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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS GIGUERE, OF ATTLEBCRO, MASSACHUSETTS', ASSIGNOR TO THE DAGGETT da CLAP COMPANY, OF ATTLEBORO, MASSACHUSETTS.

LOCKET OR SIMILA'R ARTICLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 720,798, dated February 17, 1903.

Application led November 14eg 1901. Serial No. 82,229. (No model.)

To coll whom, it may concern,.-

Beit known that L Tnonns GIGUEEE, a cti Zen of the United States, residing at Attleboro, in the county of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Lockets or Similar Articles, of which the following is a specification.

In a locket, a Watchcase, or similar article in which a picture, hair, or other similar article is required to be secured it is desirable that the same may be readily inserted or removed. I have devised an annular rim having projecting points Within which I secure the sheet-metal ring forming a mat by which the picture or other article is held in place.

Figure l is a plan View showing'the inside of the cover of a locket. Fig. 2 is an enlarged View of part of Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a sectional view of part of the cover, showing the projection on the annular rim by which the mat is secured.

In the drawings, a indicates part of the shell and back of a locket, watchcase, or similar article, b the annular rim secured in the shell, and b' b projecting, preferably semispherical, points on the cylindrical face of the annular rim. In the preferred form the projecting points t are formed by driving the metal outward, as is shown in Fig. 3. The flat ring c of thin sheet metal forms a mat inclosing the picture. It is inserted under two of the projecting points o and may be pushed down over the other point b'. When in place under the points b b', as shown in Fig. 3, the ring c will securely hold a glasss plate, a picture, or similar article. By lifting the ring c over one of the points t' the ring and article held by it may be removed.

A thin metallic disk may be secured in the same manner as the ring c.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- In a locket or similar article, the combination with the shell ci, of an annular rim b secured to the shell a and provided with a cylindrical face, the points b t projecting from the cylindrical face of the rim t, and the ring c, as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

THOMAS GIGUERE.

Witnesses:

FRANK I. BAEoocK, HART/Ev E. OLAP. 

